Will Depue reports early signs of GPT-6 Astra auto-interp progress on Qwen3.5-0.8B
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OpenAI researcher Will Depue says there are early signs of life from Astra-next's auto-interpretability work, though he describes the latest results as not dramatic.
He reports the work on Qwen3.5-0.8B weights, which he calls Weight-Space Programming results. Depue says the next step is upstream reinforcement learning tasks to make Astra-next much better at auto-interp work.
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will depue@willdepueXWill Depue says early signs of Astra-next's auto-interp progress, not dramaticAIWill Depue, an OpenAI researcher, says there are very much signs of life but nothing super dramatic in the latest work. He says the next step is upstream RL tasks to make Astra-next much better at auto-interp work.
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